Onipaa Quotes & Sayings

I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way. — Mavis Gallant

When I first started, I wasn't really into movies that much unless it was an action-packed gunslinger with naked women here and there. — Josh Duhamel

When you con for revenge, you might not know when you've won. — Karina Halle

Oliver couldn't walk away. Not when the wallflower needed rescuing. His goddamn Achilles heel, no matter how disastrous the outcome tended to be. He just wished his heroics would work out for once.
He kept his eyes trained on the pretty black-haired American, every muscle tensed for action. An eternity ticked by. No one approached her. She had no one to dance with, to talk to. She looked... lost. Hauntingly lonely. Frightened and defiant all at the same time.
'Twould be better for them both if he turned around right now. Never met her eye. Never exchanged a single word. Left her to her fate and him to his.
It was already too late. — Erica Ridley

Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it. — Buddy Hackett

I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have the radio on. And the guy on the radio sounded like he was having so much fun. And I knew, when his program was over, he wasn't going to go to school. — Rush Limbaugh

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents. — Walter Cronkite

Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation. — Wayne Huizenga

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work. — Jonathan Sacks

Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter. — Bono

The Astronomer
AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth? — Aesop

Disturbing crunch as
Skin is punctured for access
Sweet, warm, filling blood — Debby Feo

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It's the living. Those of us left behind. — Jael McHenry

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them. — Albert Einstein

The Vancouver Olympics was the first competition where I completed the short and free programs without any mistakes, and that in itself was a huge achievement. — Kim Yuna